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Connor Kristopher Smith — 60 Patents

SOSonos: 56 patents #19 of 446Top 5%
New Hudson, MI: #2 of 126 inventorsTop 2%
Michigan: #644 of 86,293 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #38,820 of 4,157,543Top 1%
60 Patents All Time
Connor Kristopher Smith has been granted 60 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sonos. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in December 2025. Connor Kristopher Smith ranks #38,820 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.93%). Patent records list Connor Kristopher Smith in New Hudson, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2023.peak 162014: 1 patents20142020: 7 patents20202021: 9 patents20212022: 8 patents20222023: 16 patents20232024: 11 patents20242025: 8 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 60 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12513479 Determining and adapting to changes in microphone performance of playback devices Kurt Thomas Soto, Roberto Maria Dizon, Patrick McPherson, Charles Conor Sleith 2025-12-30
12462802 Command keywords with input detection windowing Matthew David Anderson 2025-11-04
12374333 VAS toggle based on device orientation Fiede Schillmoeller 2025-07-29
12374334 Offline voice control 2025-07-29
12308018 Systems and methods for generating labeled data to facilitate configuration of network microphone devices Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith 2025-05-20
12290184 Adjustable back restaurant highchair Samantha Smith 2025-05-06
12230291 Voice detection optimization using sound metadata Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith 2025-02-18
12211490 Locally distributed keyword detection Nick D'Amato 2025-01-28
12170805 Networked devices, systems, and methods for associating playback devices based on sound codes Charles Conor Sleith, John Tolomei 2024-12-17 $3,235,000
12165643 Devices, systems, and methods for distributed voice processing John Tolomei, Betty Lee 2024-12-10 $1,107,000
12165651 Voice detection optimization based on selected voice assistant service Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith 2024-12-10 $1,107,000
12119000 Input detection windowing Matthew David Anderson 2024-10-15 $3,869,000
12093608 Noise classification for event detection Nick D'Amato, Kurt Thomas Soto 2024-09-17 $1,316,000
11961519 Localized wakeword verification 2024-04-16 $3,848,000
11915687 Systems and methods for generating labeled data to facilitate configuration of network microphone devices Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith 2024-02-27 $8,448,000
11887598 Voice verification for media playback 2024-01-30 $3,070,000
11881222 Command keywords with input detection windowing Matthew David Anderson 2024-01-23 $7,270,000
11869503 Offline voice control 2024-01-09 $11,204,000
11862161 VAS toggle based on device orientation Fiede Schillmoeller 2024-01-02 $7,176,000
11854547 Network microphone device with command keyword eventing John Tolomei, Kurt Thomas Soto 2023-12-26 $11,733,000
11830495 Networked devices, systems, and methods for intelligently deactivating wake-word engines Charles Conor Sleith, Kurt Thomas Soto 2023-11-28 $2,547,000
11798553 Voice assistant persistence across multiple network microphone devices Paul Bates 2023-10-24 $1,369,000
11792590 Determining and adapting to changes in microphone performance of playback devices Kurt Thomas Soto, Roberto Maria Dizon, Patrick McPherson, Charles Conor Sleith 2023-10-17 $2,043,000
11790937 Voice detection optimization using sound metadata Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith 2023-10-17 $2,043,000
11771866 Locally distributed keyword detection Nick D'Amato 2023-10-03 $1,709,000